Lesson with and from von neumann

in helping Norman Macrae with research of his biography of von neumann these topics interested me most and I am always delighted to try and provid more context to hiw they critically impact the net generation's future possibilities

von neumann forecast that the first net genration would be a most productive age if and only if 20th C man went beyond zero sum models to way above that; indeed as borderless connectivity multiplied the zero-sum mindset would impact ever less than zero-sum consequences - you all of a networked world cant expect human sustainabilty if boders are the where you are compounding the greatest risk

von neumann was very much an open source guy in mind and in his practices - he went as far as to say that in a fully networked world, most patents should have a maximum of 3 months generation; his logic if a team is still passionate in leading a dicovery's focus, then 3 months lead in a highly networked well should be more than enough to have all the most value multiplying partners gravitated around you- one case that seems to confirm the neumann login was the way scientists at uni of cambridge advanced mapping of the human genome for which they won a nobel prize - each night they would web their latest findings, so that each day could connect with the world's most informed intelligence on the matter

von neumann was also fascinated about what organisational form the world's most productive leaders will be supported by in the networked age; he mused information structures will make it possible for those with exceptional creative ability to be linked into 50 project teams at a time each of whose work will be accelerared faster abd faster by the computing aspects if not the human dynamics of what they interact

von neumann also represents an irony - probably the last mathematician to live in america who was mainly free to folow up his own leads rather than having to get funds from bureaucrats before he could build on his unique knowledge flows; of course one of the projects that von neumann had the least freedom on was nuclear, and it caused his untimely death; it may be that the very darkness of the nuclear work energised him to accelearte his joyfully passion (freedom to be productive) for what computing and netwrking dynamics could most humanly multiply

Dad (Norman Macrae) created the genre Entrepreneurial Revolution to debate how to make the net generation the most productive and collaborative . We had first participated in computer assisted learning experiments in 1972. Welcome to more than 40 years of linking pro-youth economics networks- debating can the internet be the smartest media our species has ever collaborated around?

1972: Norman Macrae starts up Entrepreneurial Revolution debates in The Economist. Will we the peoples be in time to change 20th C largest system designs and make 2010s worldwide youth's most productive time? or will we go global in a way that ends sustainability of ever more villages/communities? Drayton was inspired by this genre to coin social entrepreneur in 1978 ,,continue the futures debate here